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Show 1M KILLED Mr and Mrs. M. E. Kirke Are Victims Auto is Struck Denver, July 4. Mr. and Mrs. M. Z. Kirke of Littleton, a suburb, were killed today when an automobile in which they wero riding was struck by an engine on the Denver & Rio Grando railroad as a grade crossing. Mr. Kirke was thrown from the automobile au-tomobile and killed instantly. The automobile, with Mrs. Kirke In It, was carried along the track for more than 100 yards, and then wedged so tightly under the pilot of the engine than an hour's work was required to removo it Practically every bone in Mrs. Klrke's body was crashed, but she lived until after the arrival of the polico po-lico ambulance. Mr. and Mrs. Kirke each were 42 years old. . no |